NIACL Assistant Prelims Exam Analysis (Shift 1): 8th September 2018

NIACL Assistant Prelims Exam Analysis (Shift 1) 2018: The New India Assurance Co. Ltd. held the preliminary examination for the post of Assistant today. The shortlisted candidates will move to the next round i.e. mains paper.

In an attempt to provide clarity to all the candidates about their performance, OnlineTyari is providing a detailed NIACL Assistant Exam Analysis, which basically tells about the difficulty level and no. of questions asked.

NIACL Assistant Prelims Exam Analysis (Shift 1): 8th September 2018

Before we begin our paper review, let’s get some basics out first. As we all know, the exam was composed of 3 sections i.e. Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, and English Language. The exam pattern in details is as follows.

Section

No.of Qs

Marks

Time

English

30

30

20 mins

Reasoning

35

35

20 mins

Quant

35

35

20 min

TOTAL

100

100

60 mins

The exam held yesterday had an overall difficulty level of Easy to Moderate.We proceed further into detailed NIACL Assistant Exam Analysis with Prelims section-wise paper review of each topic asked.

NIACL Assistant Prelims Exam Analysis: English Language Section

Good Attempts:23-24 Questions

Level of Difficulty:Easy

Beginning our paper review with English Section, this was a major confidence booster this year. The English Section in NIACL Exam comprised on 3 topics – Cloze Test, Errors and Reading Comprehension, with equal number of questions (10 each).

Name of Topic

Number of Questions

Reading Comprehension

7

Spelling

6

Error Spotting

5

Sentence Rearrangement

5

Single Fillers

6

Total

30

The level of this section was quite easy and most questions could be attempted on time. A number of candidates struggled while solving questions based on Reading Comprehension but this time, simple skimming techniques proved adequate enough.

NIACL Assistant Prelims Exam Analysis: Reasoning Ability Section

Good Attempts:27-29 Questions

Level of Difficulty:Easy to Moderate

Turning the level of difficulty up a notch, the reasoning section in NIACL Assistant Prelims Examination was a little confusing. The section was predominantly filled with questions based on Puzzles.

Name of Topic

Number of Questions

Inequality

5

Seating Arrangement & Puzzles

10

Alpha Numeric Symbol Series

5

Data Sufficiency

5

Syllogism

5

Miscellaneous (Blood Relations, Number Based, Alphanumeric Series,)

10

There was a good mixture of Easy to Challenging Questions but a proper inspection would’ve definitely shelled out the ones to solve quickly. Syllogism based questions could be solved quite easily.

NIACL Assistant Prelims Exam Analysis: Quantitative Aptitude Section

Good Attempts:25-27 Questions

Level of Difficulty:Easy to Moderate

To much surprise, a lot of candidates found the quant section to be quite easy to attempt. The level of difficulty of Quant Section in NIACL Exam was Easy to slightly Moderate. But, there was one catch.